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namespace octalforty.Componento.Shared.SemanticModel
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Defines the type of the Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).
    /// </summary>
    /// <remarks>
    /// An instruction set, or instruction set architecture (ISA), is the part of the computer architecture related to programming, 
    /// including the native data types, instructions, registers, addressing modes, memory architecture, interrupt and 
    /// exception handling, and external I/O. An ISA includes a specification of the set of opcodes (machine language), 
    /// the native commands implemented by a particular processor.
    /// <para />
    /// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set_architecture
    /// </remarks>
    public enum IsaType
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Common Intermediate Language.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// CIL is a CPU- and platform-independent instruction set that can be executed in any environment supporting the .NET framework
        /// </remarks>
        Cil,

        /// <summary>
        /// x86.
        /// </summary>
        x86,

        /// <summary>
        /// x86-64.
        /// </summary>
        x64,

        /// <summary>
        /// ARM.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// The ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture developed by ARM Limited.
        /// </remarks>
        Arm
    }
}